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Horton Cemetery: where 9,000 people are buried without names

Horton Cemetery: where 9,000 people are buried without names

by Daisy Sanderson | May 22, 2026 | Living Proof

At Horton Cemetery, Europe’s largest asylum burial ground, around 9,000 people were buried by the state without names or markers. Decades later, families and campaigners are fighting for access to the privately owned land where they lie, and to give them back their...

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